CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND SEMINARS

• "Fungus-growing ants or ant-growing fungi: a matter of perspective in studying mutualisms." Seminários Gerais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Microbiologia Aplicada), UNESP, Rio Claro, Brazil, 2020 (talk).
• "Why study ants at Kew?" Kabam! seminar at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2019 (talk).
• "Ant fungal crop phylogenetics and genomics." Invited seminar at Laboratório de Micologia do INPA, Manaus, Brazil, 2019 (talk).
• "On several aspects of lower attine ant fungi." Invited talk at IX Congresso Brasileiro de Micologia, Manaus, Brazil, 2019 (talk).
• "Fungus-growing ants or ant-growing fungi: a matter of perspective in studying mutualisms." Invited seminar at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom, 2019 (talk).
• British Mycological Society Autumn Meeting 2018, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2018 (attended).
• "On the origin of mutualisms: where did fungus-farming in ants begin?" State of the World’s Fungi 2018, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2018 (poster).
• "Genome assembly of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus cultivated by the ant Atta colombica using long-read MinION sequences." 18th World congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Guarujá, Brazil, 2018 (talk).
• "Genome assembly of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus cultivated by the ant Atta colombica using long-read MinION sequences." 11th International Mycological Congress (IMC), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2018 (talk).
• "Genome assembly of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus cultivated by the ant Atta colombica using long-read MinION sequences." The Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Symposium (EGGS), Cambridge, UK, 2018 (poster).
• "Boyacá's Forgotten Kingdom." Brown-bag seminar at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom, 2017 (talk).
• "On the origin of mutualisms: where did fungus-farming in ants begin?" 16th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen, The Netherlands, 2017 (poster).
• "On ants, fungus and ‘hormigas culonas’: Phylogenetic studies of fungus-farming ants." Invited seminar at the Section for Ecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017 (talk).
• "On the origin of mutualisms: constructing phylogeny of Leucoagaricus and related species." British Mycological Society Autumn Meeting, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2016 (talk).
• "On ants, fungus and ‘hormigas culonas’: Phylogenetic studies of fungus-farming ants." Invited seminar at the research group Genética evolutiva, filogeografía y ecología de biodiversidad Neotropical, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia, 2016 (talk).
• "International Biological Collections: RBG Kew." Invited talk at the workshop "Talleres internacionales de buenas prácticas para diseñar proyectos" organised by the British Research Council and Colciencias, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2016 (talk).
• "On the origin of mutualisms." Invited talk at VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Micologia, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2016 (talk).
• "Fungal adaptations to mutualistic life with ants: The story of a fungal symbiont." Invited seminar at Organismal Biology Department, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, 2016 (talk).
• "Fungal adaptations to mutualistic life with ants: The story of a fungal symbiont." Brown-bag seminar at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom, 2016 (talk).
• "Symbiont policing and mutualism maintenance." Centre for Ecology and Evolution (CEE) Autumn Symposium and Mixer, London, United Kingdom, 2015 (talk)
• "Fast-growing fungal crops grown by the ant Trachymyrmex cornetzi appear more resistant to the fungal pathogen Escovospsis." North-west European Section IUSSI winter meeting, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2014 (talk).
• "Advanced farming ants rear polyploid crop fungi." Copenhagen Microbiology Center Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014 (poster).
• "Advanced farming ants rear polyploid crop fungi." 18th World congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Cairns, Australia, 2014 (talk).
• "Advanced farming ants rear polyploid crop fungi." 2nd PhD-day at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013 (flash-talk + poster).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." Invited seminar at Microbial Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Lund, Sweden, 2013 (talk).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 1st PhD-day at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012 (talk).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 18th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB), Virrat, Finland, 2012 (talk).
• "Attine ants: the animal freight trucks of their fungal symbiont. New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 5th Congress of the European Sections of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Montecatini Terme, Italy, 2012 (talk).
• "Attine ants: Farmers or livestock? New molecular insight into a complex ant-fungus mutualism." 13th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Tübingen, Germany, 2011 (talk).
• 17th World congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010 (organizing group).
• "'Fast-food' versus 'fresh' food: Dynamics of fungus garden enzyme activity in the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes [Attini: Myrmicinae: Formicidae]." Nordic Network in Social Evolution Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2009 (talk).
• Nordic Network in Social Evolution Workshop, Matsalu, Estonia, 2009 (talk).

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